Space Engineering

A redefinition of art!

Faint Associations: Space Engineering No.9

A movement study, based on faint associations, exploring embodied spatial form, weight, momentum, and proximity.

Choreographer: Johan Stjernholm.

Dancers: Reiko Mori and Johan Stjernholm.

Camera work: Marty Jessup.

Editor: Johan Stjernholm.

Costume, lighting and set design: Johan Stjernholm.

Space Engineering No.8

Live performance at the Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban, London. Staged during the Laban International Conference 2008, 24-26 October. This work revisits the geometric structures of Space Engineering No.1 and gives an alternative embodied interpretation of its harmonic spatial relationships.

Choreographer: Johan Stjernholm

Dancers: Takeshi Matsumoto and Johan Stjernholm

Costume: Reiko Mori

Music: Johan Stjernholm

Space Engineering No.2: All a Part of Me

 

This is a choreographic work based on a love poem. Two creatures meet, share, and depart.

Choreographer, Director, and Producer: Johan Stjernholm
Dancers: Hyo Jeung Jo and Johan Stjernholm
Costume: t a k i s
Videography: Daniel Katz
Editor: Johan Stjernholm

Metropolitan Flowers



Metropolitan Flowers is a promotion video for the fashion designer Sohui Hwang.

Producer: Marina Ogata.
Director and Choreographer: Johan Stjernholm.
Videographer: Daniel Katz.

Space Engineering No.1: Sonata in G minor



Space Engineering No. 1 is a choreographic meditation, exploring the structural and mathematical relationships between space harmony, or choreutics, and music harmony. The movements are based on the harmonic structures of J. S. Bach's Solo Sonata No. 1 for violin in G minor.

Choreographer, Director and Producer: Johan Stjernholm.
Dancers: Hyo Jin Na and Johan Stjernholm.

2323

2323 is a choreographic work that experiments with relationships between movement, 3D computer graphics, text, and music. Set in the year 2323, this science fiction story introduces a world where humans, cyborgs, and AIs, struggle to live peacefully together. This video, which is less than three minutes long, is an abbreviated version based on live recordings from the original 20 minutes stage version.

 

Choreographer, Director, and Producer: Johan Stjernholm
Dancer: Saphy Williams

Clio Eleni Elston Alphas

Directing and costume design by Clio Eleni, videography and editing by Mark Raeburn. From the MA Costume Design for Performance at London College of Fashion 2009. Course Director Donatella Barbieri. Supervised and choreographed by Johan Stjernholm.

Synnove Balabanian

Directing and costume design by Synnove Balabanian, videography and editing by Mark Raeburn. From the MA Costume Design for Performance at London College of Fashion 2009. Course Director Donatella Barbieri. Supervised and choreographed by Johan Stjernholm.

Eun Ju Chong

Directing and costume design by Eun Ju Chong, videography and editing by Mark Raeburn. From the MA Costume Design for Performance at London College of Fashion 2009. Course Director Donatella Barbieri. Supervised and choreographed by Johan Stjernholm.

Giulia Picorari

Directing and costume design by Giulia Picorari, videography and editing by Mark Raeburn. From the MA Costume Design for Performance at London College of Fashion 2009. Course Director Donatella Barbieri. Supervised and choreographed by Johan Stjernholm.